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09-17-2013, 12:48 PM #376PowderdDonutsMakeMeGoNuts
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09-21-2013, 11:39 AM #378Registered User
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09-21-2013, 08:53 PM #379
Who skis a Rockies 11'er in winter? Someone who really knows their shit/wants to die?
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09-22-2013, 02:23 PM #380
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09-23-2013, 06:56 AM #381Registered User
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Snow Creek, Mt. San Jacinto, California.
It's a grind. The climb is over 9,500 ft vert. The ski down is over 5,500 ft vert which is a nice reward.
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09-23-2013, 12:34 PM #382
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12-09-2013, 05:48 PM #383
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06-04-2015, 12:46 PM #384
Bumping this awesome thread. Just read this whole damn thing instead of doing work for the last ~40 mins. Some of these are in serious need of pic updates though.
And god damn, I gotta get after it harder.
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06-04-2015, 01:23 PM #385
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06-04-2015, 02:27 PM #386
Haha... who is this moron?
The best couloirs run off the summit.
Tumbling Peak (600m couloir, ~1000 summit to glacier toe)
Mt Farnham (biggest mtn in Purcells) -900m couloir. When properly timed, skiable off the summit
Arras mountain ~700m of couloir before the steep summit face, 1300m summit- flat ground
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06-04-2015, 03:27 PM #387
Best couloir in north america? nope. But nice to visit the Dolomites just an hour from home in Terrace B.C.
June 2, 2014. 3300 foot run, 2500 hundo of which between rock walls...twas a blast.
Of course, in these parts, you gotta pay to play; minor epic on the hike out battling ski-on-pack unfriendly b.c. bush, black flies, mosquitos, horseflies and prit near 30 degree heat.
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06-04-2015, 04:21 PM #388
The ski down has been about 1500' the past few winters.
I'll be down that way again next April. Always happy to find a partner. My preferred route is a car shuttle. With a tram ride you only have a 2000' approach over a few mellow miles. The exit will still be a bitch even in epic years tho
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06-05-2015, 06:01 AM #389
Best couloir in the Midwest... the whereabouts of which are unknown to me but suspected to be north, eh?
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06-05-2015, 03:49 PM #390“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
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06-06-2015, 06:59 PM #391
Well Gary, in honor of another Terrace expatriate we both know and love, even though as far as I know the guy hasn't even seen this couloir, we called it simply.... Pineapple Pete. Maybe 'cause the day was so hot and tropical and the cooler faces generally south? Just seemed right.
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06-07-2015, 06:58 AM #392
In the Northeast I believe the Chimney on Katahdin takes the cake. There are some great lines in the Chic Chocs and in the Presidentials with comparable skiing quality, but the setting of Katahdin is on another level:
Its the line right of the left-most sub-peak:
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06-07-2015, 09:32 AM #393“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
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06-07-2015, 09:37 AM #394“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
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06-07-2015, 09:57 AM #395
16 mile approach to the hut is worth it. That would be ml242 and Cat in January in the pics. I was across the cirque shooting pics and hunkering down whenever the rain/snow/wind triggered a wave of sluff (over an otherwise bomber snow pack). Skied a nice, but far less impressive line between boulders and huge sheets of water ice with D-Roc and Lynchdogger:
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05-05-2019, 12:06 PM #396
On our flight out got a good look at the Tiedemann group— and those are some badass couloirs. Arrow on the Combatant I believe The one between Tiedemann and Asperity is longer. Low tide this season
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05-05-2019, 02:36 PM #397Registered User
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05-06-2019, 08:25 AM #398
Great thread bump. Best? I don't know, but a favorite of mine, almost 3k':
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05-06-2019, 10:58 AM #399
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05-06-2019, 11:12 AM #400
yeah that was a nice bump
N face of Philistine - couloir is about 400m. Face is 1000m
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N face of Howard - couloir part we booted was also about 400m. Entire face is 750m
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Mixing it up - just out side Vancouver - Brunswick Peak - maybe 150m couloir?
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